Fusion of auditory components: effects of the frequency of amplitude modulation.
The fusion of two amplitude-modulated (AM) tones presented simultaneously was studied. Subjects were presented with an AM tone (A) followed by a copy of itself (B) which was accompanied by another AM tone (C). In different experiments, the subjects were asked either to rate how clearly they could hear Tone B in the BC mixture or whether Tone B was present or not. The stronger the fusion of Tones B and C, the harder it was to "hear out" Tone B. It was found that fusion was strongest when Tones B and C were modulated at the same rate; segregation curves were obtained for the degree of mismatch of modulation frequency.
Bregman
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McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Levitan
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Liao
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D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010897:Pitch Discrimination; D011571:Psychoacoustics